- [Instructor] For our third chapter,…I've created a new chapter folder, chapter three.…It's got a copy of our Anesthesia project in it.…So, click browse to choose the location…and find chapter three…and go on into the Anesthesia project…if you are following along with these media files.…An Assistant Editor's task…is to prepare media and organize it in such a way…that the job of the Editor is much much easier.…That's pretty obvious.…One of the ways that Assistant Editors help…is by adding additional metadata to the clips…that allows the editor to more easily find…and organize the content.…

I'm going to go into the Ingest bin…that we created way back…when we were putting this project together.…And in this bin we've got a number of clips.…Right now, the bin is set to the Format view,…which just has really basic information…that you're going to want access to a lot.…The raster or resolution of the media…and the frames per second,…and we can see here that the codec is H264.…Although, if I right-click on one of these…

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10/13/2017

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3/14/2017

Media Composer 8.7 Essential Training is a two-part, start-to-finish training series for new users of Avid Media Composer. Part two focuses on advanced editing techniques and effects, which will prepare video editors for almost any post-production scenario they encounter in the wild. Learn timesaving "quick edit" techniques that use features like phantom marks to speed up your editing workflow. Find out how to leverage more precise timeline controls to recut and fine-tune the timing of footage. Discover advanced audio editing techniques, and methods for working with high-resolution media without compromising on quality or speed. Then dive into advanced effects, such as blurring, time warping, and chroma keying, and animation with the NewBlue Titler Pro plugin. Avid Certified Instructor Maxim Jago explains each technique using examples from a documentary-style promotional project—helping you develop more advanced skills and understand how Media Composer fits into a real-world post-production workflow.

Topics include:

Importing and transcoding media

Creating a group clip

Syncing picture and sound clips

Making quick edits such as stringouts

Recutting a scene

Creating subsequences

Pacing a scene with Media Composer's trim tools

Mixing sequence audio

Working with high-res media

Retiming video

Blurring

Nesting effects

Keying video

Animating titles and graphics

Skill Level Beginner

6h 22m

Duration

91,231

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Q: This course was updated on 10/13/2017. What changed?

A: New videos were added that cover what’s new in Media Composer 8.7, 8.8, and 8.9.